Fantastic, everything blends in perfectly. Just a nitpick, the masking of the rocks is a little soft, try to sharpen the edges a little. GL !

Thanks Lamantine, fixed rock edges.

Good mood & color, but I don't think they had rubber tires back in the days of sailing ships. It would be a challenge to remove them, but would make the image more authentic.

Thanks CMYK46 for suggestion, I have removed all rubber tires .

moody moody moody... ... reminds me of Half Circle Sea hold from the Dragonsong series by Anne McKaffery (Dragon Riders of Pern)

Great piece of work!
The vignette is a bit to strong in my opinion but propably thats just me.

Very appealing image author!! I don’t know how much realism you want in this or you maybe just going for the visual element.....for me there is a bit to much light in the scene whether it be ambient light or not. maybe try taking the whole image down a couple of notches, then make the moon glow a bit, and possible the addition of a couple of lanterns on the pier to guide the ship in. Only suggestions maybe worth a play will leave it in your more than capable hands........

You have captured the atmosphere, very creative. GL

Very nice work Author

Great mood! Nice rock formation. The lighting/shadows are a little weird. There are very strong shadows on the rocks, but they cast very soft shadows over the water. The casted shadows should also be that dark. The rocks of the contest source behind the pier have softer shadows on them then the big rock formation. You could make those shadows as dark as the big rock formation to fit the scene. I like the overall mood though! Good luck!

very nice work author...i like combination of elements...and u achieve very nice blend...colors and overall mood are fantastic...best of luck

I like the mood, very good job

love this pic!

Spooky!

Congrats for your first place, Nasir!

Congrats Nasir, lovely mood

congrats,.....this is really wonderful image.....

Congrats Nasir !

This is such a beautiful creation. Congratulations!

Congratulations, Nasir!

Congratulations!

Beautiful image. Congrats on first place

Congrats Nasir, beautiful mood!

wow beautifull.....

Nice idea author, but i think the ripples let the image down a little. The trick that i use is to use the ZigZag filter. If you make a circular selection around the base of the neck and feather that selection by about 40 pixels and then go to Filter - Distort - ZigZag and play around with the options, you will get some nice ripples.

Good luck!

hey ponti55... thanks for the trick... i didn't knew it....
thanks

A Good chop. I like the washed out colours and the texture on your secret friend here.

Great work author,i like colors so much and overall mood is fantastic...well done

Nice looking image, maybe see if you can get the creature to look a little wet will add to the realism.

I simply LOVE it!... Very dreamy and tender!

I love it too = )

real cool

Congrats for your second place, Geexman! I simply love this picture

congrats,.....great manips

Oh, great! One more star shining on my favs! Congrats, Gino!

Congrats! for 2nd place

Fantastic as always.

Very fun author

Great!

Thanks for the comments!

very very nice creation...different approach author...best of luck

Nice, looks pretty realistic

hahahahahahahahaahahahahah love the background

Cool robo!

Congrats for your third place, Artist!

congrats,....nice image.....

Congratulations!

Congratulations for 3rd place

Congratulation,this is great work...

Nice surreal image love the water cascading from the picture frame to the chair have a couple of suggestion for improvements, with the amount of light coming threw the window The tires at the end of the pier need to have stronger highlights and the edges of the pier its self could do with being a little softer, the cracks in the water are not really adding anything to the image and may possible look better with out them….

pretty good work.. minus the originality. i saw a tutorial with water dripping from a painting onto a couch. but interesting nonetheless

I would also lose the cracks. A bit sloppy work with the masking, especially with the inner part of your mirror/painting frame, should fix that. I would also lose that part of ground/root on the right side of the couch, looks weird. Also the water level below the pier is a bit higher than on the rest of the image. Maybe also add some contrast to the ocean image on the painting (and even straighten the horizon with the frame.. dunno about that thou).

Good colours and composition, just a little bit hasty work.

love it

Oh, I need my wellies!

Love surreal images, GL

This is very good. I like the use of textures , Just a suggestion: Erase the part of texture which is on the sea, your image will look much better if the texture is present only in the sky. GL !

EDIT : Considering elficho's comment, I would say that its up to you to decide

i disagree. it gives a nice grungy feel to the whole image.

Keep the texture through out, looks like an old picture, well done.

I really like this work. Since the texture and final antique coloring are so important to your image, it might be good to add how you achieved them to your SBS. GL

Great looking image, bit light on the how much of the source you used IMO. good outcome from all the images G/L

I like this a lot it’s a superb idea and the textures really do make the image but and theres always a but.......
What you have at the moment ( texture wise) is a little to overwhelming maybe try a texture with less marks.Or flip the one you have no harm in trying

Thank you for your comments everyone.. Lamantine, i very rarely work with textures, and i only use them to blend images together to help match colours. If i only applied it to the sky it would defeat the point of having it in the first place.
Ironcow, in my eyes the source is there to be used however the author wants, the idea came when i zoomed into the high res picture and saw the shape of the source.
Warlock, thanks for the comment, i lowered the opacity on the texture layer (it's the best i could do short of replacing the texture altogether)

I got ya. Fits the image well and looks dead sexy. Was just my opinion I hate using outside images myself but think I might mess around mixing some up . G/L author

Better than this it's impossible! Except if it's another work of yours, of course...

I agree with erikuri, well done author

this is a beautiful picture. Just try to sharpen more the rocks. GL!

Nice chop good luck too you

Thanks to everyone!

Siderismaris, i sharpened the rocks

Love it good luck

man, this pic is awesome!

Amazing image and very cleverly used texture